Your cloud recruitment specialists
The AWS, Azure, and GCP recruiters at Nexus IT Group have a tight focus on cloud staffing services and know what it takes to attract the top talent in this demanding market. These days, it seems like everyone needs skilled cloud engineers, and demand for professionals who can design, plan, manage, and maintain information platform and cloud applications has outpaced the number of job seekers in the sector. This makes it a challenge to find workers who can fill these crucial roles. Our recruiting teams combine an in-depth knowledge of everything cloud technology with an extensive talent pool of cloud computing professionals ready to take on a new role, with the right competencies and experience to meet your business needs. This includes passive candidates your in-house teams won’t find on career sites.
Why are cloud professionals so in-demand?
Cloud professionals are a crucial component of a successful digital transformation. Outdated IT and data storage systems simply can’t provide the flexibility, collaboration potential, and easy remote access that today’s businesses need for their workforce. Employees aren’t the only users of cloud platforms, either. Customers today increasingly expect digital offerings from the places they do business and that changes the demands on existing interfaces and the features they need to include. Our staffing services connect companies with candidates who can create, integrate, scale, and maintain full end-to-end solutions, from cloud architects and engineers who design cloud platform products to cloud security experts, data protection professionals, analytics employees, and administrators.
How Nexus solves cloud hiring challenges
Context matters when you’re hiring cloud professionals, and the niche terminology used in this world adds an extra layer of difficulty for hiring teams. Someone who thrives in one cloud computing role may be a poor fit for others, and an applicant tracking system or other recruiting software can’t help you find strong candidates if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Nexus IT’s recruiters provide guidance and expertise throughout the journey from candidate assessment to onboarding, helping companies avoid errors and speed up their hiring process. We give the same support during the candidate experience, ensuring the opportunities we present are a good fit for their careers, then coaching them through the interviews, offer, and salary and benefits negotiation.
Whether you’re a hiring manager with a difficult cloud role to fill or a professional considering a career shift, we would love to chat about your needs and how Nexus can help. Similar to technology roles across industries, the cloud sector is evolving quickly, and having an experienced professional on your side can help you successfully navigate this changing landscape. Even if you just want some insights into how our recruiters help connect talent with cloud opportunities, we hope you’ll reach out so we can share our expertise and help your company or career continue to move forward.
Join the many companies that staff their roles with our cloud talent
Nexus IT Group will quickly staff your open cloud roles with high-quality committed candidates
81%
of our successful candidates are submitted within one week
92%
of our candidates will accept your offer
96%
of our candidates are employed with your firm after 12 months
We have filled a variety of cloud roles
What our cloud clients have said about working with Nexus IT Group
The great thing about nexus IT group is that it has a smaller family feel, but they are able to deliver IT candidates better than the largest IT staffing suppliers that we work with. They have delivered high quality tech candidates for several years to our firm.
I’ve been in Talent Acquisition for 15 years and have used many IT staffing firms over the years. I highly recommend Nick and nexus IT group over any other IT staffing services. nexus’ commitment to quality and delivery is top tier. They take the time to understand your needs, provide thorough screening, and make sure that candidates have a positive on-boarding experience.
Working with nexus IT group has made my job much easier. Having a recruiting firm who specializes in IT and within my industry, and who understands our specific culture and hiring needs has been instrumental in our talent acquisition talent strategy.
Capital One has used nexus IT group’s recruitment services for a number of IT positions at varying levels, over the past 4 years. We’ve had a high success rate working with nexus IT group which is a testament to the caliber of their work and their internal sourcing and vetting practices.
I’ve dealt with a lot of hiring firms in my 18 years in the investment banking profession, and the majority of them have been awful to mediocre at best. Dealing with Nexus IT Group, on the other hand, was a breath of fresh air. After only one one opening, I was blown away by the quality and quantity of resumes I received. Nexus IT Group pays close attention to my demands and requirements. As a result, the individuals who were referred to me were excellent fits for our open positions. I appreciate the personal and professional expertise you offer to the process.
It is hard to put into words what nexus IT group has done for our organization. nexus IT group knows exactly what we look for and they get the right candidates 99% of the time. Anyone looking to hire tech talent would be lucky to have nexus IT group on their side. They have great work ethic, responsive, and a wide array of market knowledge.
We have been using nexus IT group for a few years now and they have done an outstanding job for us. nexus IT group has become an integral part of our success in filling several Cloud Engineer roles, and our partnership continues to grow. I would highly recommend nexus IT group to any hiring manager looking to staff their business with quality AWS candidates.
We’ve enlisted the help of a number of IT recruiting firms in the past. Nexus IT Group has contributed to the success of many great hires by working professionally, diligently, and efficiently. We contacted Nexus IT Group after being introduced to them, and we were instantly impressed by their promptness and ability to focus on our needs. We received 3 resumes the same day and 3 more the next day, and we were able to hire four people in less than a week. We added an additional individual through Nexus IT Group a few weeks later as a result of vast network, service and professionalism. I highly recommend working with Nexus IT Group.
Our cloud staffing skills keep our clients coming back
CTO
Our client is an established company selling via retail channels and business-to-business-oriented delivery operations. It was a key position responsible for overseeing digital print operations, and it was especially challenging since the previous GM had given two weeks’ notice unexpectedly. Our team presented five top-notch candidates with exceptional experience in planning, directing, coordinating operations and change management within the first week.
Cloud Engineer
At nexus IT group, we pride ourselves in being able to provide one-of-a-kind, customizable solutions to our clients. After partnering with a new Managed Services & Cloud Hosting client, our recruiting team was tasked with several immediate needs on our client’s end that included geographically dispersed positions and multiple shift variations. Our new client specializes in providing infrastructure and cloud managed services to a variety of clients in the mid-market to enterprise space. However, they’re a younger company that is quickly growing and will run into some frantic times where they need to hire many new engineers all at once for highly in-demand skill sets and unusual shifts. They had used some of the well-known recruiting companies over the past few years but their recruiting vendors were failing to provide both quality candidates and timely candidates. Our client asked that we help out on a “trial” period to see if we could ease some of their hiring troubles. What steps did we take?
Our team realized that we would be going after some of the most in-demand skill sets in the IT industry – so our first step was to build a well-crafted “story” that would really sell candidates on joining our new client’s team. At nexus IT group, we understand that IT candidates receive messages every day for new positions; our focus was to tell such a compelling story about our client and the opportunity that the candidate gravitated toward it right away. Next, our recruiting team went through several strategy sessions to identify the fastest methods for finding and recruiting the best possible candidates. Knowing our client’s needs were extremely urgent, we unleashed several of our most experienced recruiters to source and narrow down hundreds of candidates to the best of the best.
Google Cloud Architect
Our client creates balance between existing investments and cloud-driven innovation with a practical approach that prioritizes results. This particular client tasked our cloud recruiters with a challenging project. Being named Google Cloud Partner of the Year, this recognition required them to increase their Google Cloud Architect and Engineering resources. Google Cloud talent is quite a bit more scarce than AWS and demand more salary, so our cloud recruiters had to get creative with our sourcing strategy. Reach out to learn how we filled 13 Google Cloud professionals for this client.
Cloud Security Architect
A large financial services and wealth management firm tasked our cloud recruiters to assist them in finding a VP level Cloud Security Architect. This person was hired to define data security, help define Azure cloud strategy, and set standards based on insuranced regulations. Our cloud recruiters quickly sourced 249 candidates for this role and narrowed the candidate pool to our top 15. The cloud recruiting team ended up submitting 6 candidates, giving our client several options to choose from.
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Frequently asked questions about cloud recruiting
To nexus IT group placement is an art—one that requires the proper alignment of talent with opportunity, experience with need, personality with environment, and aspirations with value. The Cloud hiring space is fast-paced, highly competitive recruiting environment that offers big opportunities for Cloud candidates. Our full-cycle recruiting system is a 51 step touchpoint process from start to finish. Our engagement process starts with a discovery call to understand the needs of the role. With this series of questions our Cloud recruiters are able to build a sales cadence that we will use to deploy a multi-touch recruiting cadence precisely and accurately to hundreds of candidates that fit the expectations of the role. a relationship. Once our targeted search is executive, we spend a series of 3 calls to get to know the candidates’ needs, wants, and future career interests. Once we’ve created a shortlist of qualified and fully vetted candidates, we will deliver our top 3 to 4 candidates to the Cloud hiring manager. Once the interview process starts we work with the candidate and the hiring team to make sure communication is responsive and transparent. Once a candidate is placed, we stay in touch with the placed candidate for 2 years just to see how things are going.
Our candidate sourcing can be described in 3 words: Identify. Engage. Toolstack. Typically, the best job prospects are those who are passive. This indicates that they are not actively seeking employment. As a result, they are not surfing the Internet in search of online job postings. And because they are not viewing online job postings, we have developed a robust and 100% outbound recruiting strategy. We begin our sourcing strategy by creating a candidate persona. Once we have successfully created the candidate persona, we will then create a content strategy that will attract top talent in the cybersecurity space. Once we’ve developed our cadence we will use a number of sources to scour the web to get our message in front of the right candidates. Strategies includes searching our database, sourcing for referrals, sourcing from specific organizations, LinkedIn, Meetup, GitHub, Angel List, Dice, alumni boards, and many other specific Cloud sites. We craft highly personalized messages that drive above industry reply rates. Our recruiting strategy is to begin conversations with passive candidates to learn about their future career interests, needs, and wants and align those needs with future openings with a high-touch approach
Quality of Hire is very important for Nexus IT group and our Cloud recruiting team. Currently our Cloud specific recruiters hold a 95.13% quality of hire ratio. This is measured by any contractor who successfully completes their contract, and/or a direct placement candidate who is at our client for at least 6 months of duration.
Currently our 1 year retention rate with our Cloud clients is running right at 96.77%
The Cloud hiring environment is very fast-paced so our team of Cloud recruiters are trained to work quickly and accurately. The time required to send qualified candidates to the Cloud hiring manager, varies on the position you are seeking to fill and the challenges we will face such as lower than market compensation, bonus/equity concerns, slow feedback, onsite expectations, etc. We can deliver applicants on the day of contract signing, within a few days, or within a few weeks.
We’ve spent a great deal of time recruiting in the Cloud space, and have had the distinct pleasure of collaborating with a number of amazing companies looking to maximize revenue without hiring more sales reps and expanding their brand. From our perspective, Cloud is the future of revenue generation for all companies.
Cloud recruiters specialize in a specific market sector. Every day, our Cloud recruiters contact a specialized set of Cloud candidates working with AWS, GCP, and Azure. When starting a new search, our team has a pool of personally-known candidates to call immediately. The point is that specialized Cloud recruiters sprint out of the gate more effectively than staffing firms that go back to the drawing board for each search.
When employers receive a resume from a Cloud recruiting firm, there is a high probability that they are familiar with the individual. Our clients trust that we have thoroughly screened the candidate over a series of multiple conversations, and that they will be worth the hiring managers time to interview.
Another benefit of using a specialized Cloud recruiting firm is you will experience less of a “resume broker” relationship and more of a “sector expert.” We spend countless hours every day conversing with Cloud prospects and Cloud hiring managers, making us more “in the know” about the Cloud space. Cloud recruiters can provide insight into the landscape of employment, equity, compensation, and the most recent candidate hiring and retention challenges.
Ultimately, Cloud recruiters have access to a concentrated pool of candidates, resulting in increased efficiency during the hiring process and the ability to establish long-lasting relationships with the industry’s top talent.
Though we have several different practice areas such as Government IT staffing, DevOps staffing, Cloud staffing, Digital Marketing staffing, Data Science staffing, Private Equity, and Software Development staffing. Our Cloud recruiters are hyper focused on clients in the cloud space.. Our Cloud recruiting team has successfully worked with clients ranging from budding startups to Fortune 10 organizations.
Whether you’re recruiting for a Sr Cloud Engineer, AWS Architect, or Technical Evangelist – our recruiting solutions have you covered. Our hires range from just about anything you can imagine that a company would need when hiring Cloud talent — including non-tech roles like Head of Cloud, VP of Cloud, Cloud Practitioner, and many more—with a niche focus in Cloud staffing.
Our Cloud recruiters use a series of stages to make sure we minimize candidate fall out during the recruiting cycle. Our recruiters will perform an in depth conversation where they work to uncover the needs, wants and desires of their next career move. We ask candidates specific skillset questions. If the team feels that there’s a fit then another person from our team will speak with the candidate. If the 2 nexus reps feel that there’s a good fit then we ask the candidate to complete a 4 question feedback form so we can better understand if the role is a good or great fit. Once we receive the candidates feedback then we will perform a “Lockdown” conversation where we ask a series of questions around counteroffers, interview stages, target salary expectations, and much more. If this goes well then we will submit the candidate for client review.
First, it is incredibly difficult for Cloud hiring managers with little time to receive responses to job ads. Second, an increasing number of professionals do not respond to recruiters, particularly in the Cloud field. They prefer to hear directly from the Cloud manager, which brings us to the third challenge: recruitment is a full-time, highly specialized profession for which Cloud hiring managers do not have time for.
Our Cloud recruiting fee is 22% to 25% of the candidates first year base salary. We do our best to find a payment structure that works best for your team.
Our Cloud recruiters are paid by the companies for which they place candidates. Your Cloud recruiter does earn a commission if you are hired, but the commission is paid by the company that hires you. Our recruiting fee isn’t taken out of your salary, and it doesn’t lower the salary that you would be offered. Another misconception is that if you are presented by a recruiter, and another candidate is not, that you would be at a disadvantage because you have a fee associated with you getting that role. In our experience companies are seeking the best person for the job, and they are not concerned about a fee being paid at that point. In fact, candidates that work with recruiters actually tend to make more than those who job hunt alone.